Shipping-tag



(No Model.)

P. R. ALDERMAN.

SHIPPING TAG.

No. 399,812. Patented Mar. 19, 1889.

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1 FFICEO FRANK R. ALDERMAN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

SHIPPING=TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,812, dated March 19, 1889. Application filed November 19, 1887. Renewed July 9, 1888. Serial No. 2'79A59. (N0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK R. ALDERMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in thecounty of IVayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping-Tags, of Y which the following is a specification, reference be ing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in shipping-tags.

The invention consists in the peculiar combinations and the construction, arrangement, and adaptation of parts, all as more fully hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective View showing first step of bending wire over the top edge of the tag. Fig. 2 is an end view showing second step of putting staple in tag. Fig. 3 is a perspective showing next step of securing staple ready to receive the re-enforcement-tab, shown detached in Fig. 4. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the completed tag. Fig. (5 is an enlarged central section through the completed tag.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, A represents a paper or other flexible tag. Over the top edge of this tag I bend a wire, B, Fig. 1., and which I secure in place by means of astaple, C, Fig. 2, which is clinched, so as to hold both arms of the Wire in place and firmly in contact with the tag, Fig. 3. A re-enforcing tab, D, of any suitable material, with its ends slitted, as shown, is then slipped over the end of the tag, so that the wires 1) may be bent back with a return-bend through such slits and around the staple, the said tab being secured in place by glue or other suitable adhesive substance. By this construction and arrangement of the parts it will readily be seen that when thetag is attached to a package the strain upon the wire is not brought upon the tag, except such as may be communicated through the staple, and, as such staple passes through the tag at two different points an d is very considerably re-enforced by the tab D, the liability of the tag being torn from the wire is reduced to the minimum. It will also be seen that the securing-wire does not pass through the tag.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. The combination, with a tag, of a wire embracing the end of said tag and a staple securing said wire in place within the loops of the return-bends thereof upon opposite sidesof the tag, thus forming double strands of the wire above the point of attachment, substantially as described.

2. In a tag, the combination of a tag, a wire embracing the end of said tag, a staple clinched through the tag and embracing the wire within the return-bends thereof, and a re-enforcing tab, substantially as described.

3. In a shipping-tag, the combination of the tag A, attachingwire B, staple G, and a reenforcing tab, D, the parts being constructed, arranged, and operating substantially in the manner and for the purposes described.

4. The combination, with the blank of a shipping-tag, of an attaching wire or cord formed in one piece, with a central loop adapted to embrace the edge of the blank to form means for securing it thereto without passing it through the blank, forming double strands of the wire upon each side of the blank, and means, as the staple C, for securing the wire or cord to the blank, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 15th day of November, 1887.

FRANK R. ALDERMAN.

IVitnesses H. S. SPRAGUE, JAMEs WHITTEMORE. 

